In five years Saylor and the loudest mouthpieces at Bitcoin Magazine will be leading the charge to increase block size. They’ll say it’s needed to accommodate all the great new things (spam) they’ve put on chain.

They’ll reduce the decentralization by making impractical for plebs to run a node.

They’ll claim it’s for the better for #bitcoin when what they really care about it ROI.

When you bite inside of mouth

Then it swells

And so you bite it even more

Then have to learn a new way to chew for a day

RETARDED BIOLOGICAL UX

Don't get me wrong, I stare into my phone as much as the next guy. But every time I see a group of people sitting at a table, together, with each person staring into their own phone as if they were alone, I find myself shaking my head. I guess I'm a grumpy old man now.

i'm not very good at speed-reading but I'm quite good at sleep-reading which is putting on an audiobook and falling asleep

FEES ARE HIGH

DO NOT CONSOLIDATE

DO NOT OPEN CHANNELS

Sometimes I get invited onto shitcoin or shitcoin-adjacent podcasts. And there materializes a dilemma.

Should Republicans go on MSNBC? Should Democrats go on Fox? I mean, probably, if you are comfortable with what your performance will look like with the hosts. After all, you're touching an addressable audience. To the extent that you're successful, you are pushing forward. You're not locked in there with them; they're locked in there with you.

So if they're large enough, I tend to do so, but I won't change what I say since I don't honestly care if I get invited back. If they want to mess around and have me there, I'm willing to mess around and talk real.

I’ve been critical of Musk on a number of topics, but they all come back to a lack of honesty, and a wide public bid/ask spread on that perception. Just that one thing.

I don’t think he is unintelligent, or racist, or antisemitic, etc. He is just not genuine. And he bends over for strongmen dictators while pretending to be a freedom advocate.

Likewise, you will rarely if ever see me criticize SpaceX results. I never criticize SpaceX rockets blowing up and so forth. Rocketry is fucking hard and it’s about gradual iteration. SpaceX is doing fine technically as far as I can tell as a space nerd. They’re getting better. The overall US space industry has been in absolute shambles for over a decade now, so I welcome some progress there. The only extent that I’ve ever criticized SpaceX is to remind people on the right that neither Tesla or SpaceX are the Libertarian dreams that many of them imagine. SpaceX has been reliant on many government contracts, and Tesla has been reliant on many government subsidies. For SpaceX I am not saying that’s good or bad per se (they do compete for it), but I’m saying we finance a good chunk of it out of taxes. But other than making sure people are familiar with the funding source, I haven’t criticized SpaceX yet.

I’m pretty specific.

I've just been notified by the admin at the Bitcoin Mining Resources website that their Twitter account has been banned 😱😱

What are your favorite hardware wallets, among the latest generation of them?

And are there any that you really don’t like?